Just A Thought ~ CONFORMITY AND NON-CONFORMITY

There are things we must conform to ~ things which, because of long usage, become norms, the breaking of which will only cause trouble. One such is the way we drive. In the U.K, Australia and some other countries, we drive on the left, while in the U.S. and most other countries, we drive on the right. To defy convention just for the sake of being different and demonstrating our individuality, may not only result in heavy fines, but worse still, in severe injury or death.

Deliberate non-conformity is just another form of conformity, and we are still trapped. See the fashions in clothes, hairstyles and music; see the strange habit of smoking: if no-one else followed fashion or smoked, who would dare to be the only one to do so? Really, we should use our minds more than we do, and decide what we really want to do instead of merely aping others.